Frank Jaskulke is the VP of Sales & Business Development at Avio Medtech, a startup-focused medical device acceleration firm. At Avio he engages medical device teams in projects to speed time to market and reduce risk. Prior to Avio, he spent 20 years at the Medical Alley Association in various leadership roles, most recently as VP of Innovation, where he led Medical Alley Starts. In his time at Medical Alley, Frank was involved in founding the Medical Device Innovation Consortium, the first public-private consortium between the FDA and medical device industry, developing and passing legislation that incented over $4 billion of private investment in Minnesota-based startups, and launching Medical Alley Starts, an acceleration program that facilitated over $3 billion of investments and M&A transactions. Frank is a board director of University Enterprise Labs, the largest biotech-focused incubator in the upper-midwest, and Medtech Actuator, an Australia-based investor and accelerator with offices in Singapore, Korea, and Japan. He holds a Bachelor's and Master's in Political Science, both from the University of Minnesota.